Closed Bug 317771 Opened 19 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Mouse-hover tooltips not appropriate for newsgroups?

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 318792

People

(Reporter: wa1ter, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051125 Firefox/1.6a1 Build Identifier: thunderbird trunk When hovering the mouse pointer over an email-account Inbox, all seems to work perfectly: I get a tooltip showing info about unread emails in that Inbox. Seems to work perfectly for pop3, IMAP, and RSS accounts. The problem is with newsgroups: instead of getting an informative tooltip, the newsgroup is inappropriately marked as read, i.e. the number of unread articles disappears and the group name is changed from bold to regular font. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Check a news server account for new/unread articles 2.Hover the mousepointer over a newsgroup with unread articles 3.After a second or two, that group will be marked as 'read'. Actual Results: Seems to me, the mouse-hover event should be ignored for newsgroups. I can't think of any appropriate use for that event, since displaying a list of unread articles is totally impractical. Expected Results: Nothing, IMO. The newsgroup should not be marked as read when it hasn't been. BTW, this seems to have nothing to do with the tooltip which appears when the Accounts pane is too narrow to display the entire group name. What I'm describing will happen no matter how wide or narrow the Accounts pane is. Occasionally I notice that, instead of being marked as read, the number of articles will instead be changed to some lower (but incorrect) number, e.g. from 337 unread articles to 24. I can't explain this difference.
It happens in 2.0 too and it is very annoying. It looks like the code cannot access unread messages in newsgroups and marks newsgroups under the mouse as read.
This appears to be a variation on bug 318792, which I think has a better description. The newsgroup isn't actually 'marked as read' -- if you click on the group, the un-downloaded messages get downloaded. The hover action merely causes the current unread (downloaded and not) count to be decreased by the undownloaded count, usually to zero. Walter, if you agree, please mark this bug as a dupe of that one.
Agreed, thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 318792 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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